For the children coming back to nursery after all the excitement of Christmas we like to have something new and different planned to capture their interest and fire their imaginations. And this term particularly, with all the uncertainty that Covid-19 is still causing, we definitely need something big to focus on, something constant and fascinating, […]
Christmas is really exciting for children. We need to remember though, that until they are about 6 they have a very hazy understanding of time, and so, if we start telling them about Christmas weeks in advance, they can get confused and disappointed when the things we’ve talked about don’t happen immediately. At Seedlings we […]
How very strange the start to this school year has been, compared with last year’s! But small children live in the present and what happens right now is what’s normal for them, regardless of what we might feel as adults. September is always a time of new beginnings, change and a sense of moving forward. Old friends […]
Although Seedlings was open during the Lockdown to play our part in accommodating priority children, preparing to re-open more generally from 1 June presented a variety of additional challenges. Our first few days enabled us to refine and tweak the measures we had already put in place. We have two priorities: 1. How to keep […]
Our theme this term is going to be Families. We’ll be talking about Mums and Dads, brothers and sisters, nans, grannies and grandads, aunties and uncles, cousins…. In our work at Seedlings we come in contact with a wide variety of families and we get to know loads of different family members. The children are […]
